David stone



I D. STONE."

Rubber Bracelet.

E No. 226,564. Patented April-13,1880.

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' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DAVID STONE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

RUBBER BRACELET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 226,564, dated April 13, 1880.

' Application filed January 31, 1880.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DAVID STONE, of the city, county, and State of N ew York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Rubber Bracelets, of which the followin g is a specification.

Figure 1 represents the improvement. Figs. 2 and 3 represent modifications. Figs. 4, 5, and 6 are sections taken through the lines was, 3 y, and z 2, Figs. 1, 2, and 3, respectively.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts. I

The object of this invention is to furnish rubber bracelets simple and inexpensivein construction and neat and ornamental in appearance.

The invention consists in constructing rubber bracelets with extensions upon the opposite side edges of the band to represent buckles; also, in forming slots in the said extensions, and also in the combination, with the slotted extensions, of the crossbar placed upon the inner side of the band, with its ends projecting through the slots and resting upon the side extensions, as will be hereinafter fully described.

A represents the band of the bracelet, which is made open and with overlapped ends, in the usual manner. Upon the side edges of the middle part of the band A are formed extensions B, made to represent a buckle, and formed in one piece with the said band A. The extensions B may be rectangular in form, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, or they may be oval or of any other desired shape, the form of the extensions B being immaterial so long as they represent the projecting ends of a buckle. The end parts of the extensions B are connected by pairs of lines or grooves G across the band A, to represent the side bars of a buckle.

The extensions B may be made whole, as shown in Fig. 1, or they may be made with short transverse slots D, with the inner sides of the said slots in line with the side edges of the band A.

Theslots D may be made in pairs, with a narrow bar, E, between their adjacent ends, to represent a central bar of abuckle or slide, as shown in Fig. 2; or the slots D may be made single, extending the whole distance between the inner lines of the pairs of lines or grooves G, in which case the band A may be 'made with an outward bend between these in ner lines, and a separate bar, F, may be placed within the said bend, with its ends passing out through the slots D and resting upon the extensions B, as shown in Figs. 3 and 6.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patcut- 1. As an improved article of manufacture, a rubber bracelet constructed substantially as herein shown and described, with extensions B upon the opposite side edges of the band A, connected at their ends by pairs of lines or grooves 0 across the said band A, to represent a buckle, as set forth.

2. In rubber bracelets made with extensions B upon the opposite side edges of the band A to represent a buckle, the slots D, formed in the said extensions B, with the inner sides of the said slots in line with the edges of the band A, substantially as herein shown and described.

3. In rubber bracelets, the combination, with the slotted extensions B, formed upon the opposite side edges of the band A to represent a buckle, of the cross-bar F, placed upon the inner side of the band A, with its ends projecting through the slots D and resting upon the extensions B, substantially as herein shown and described.

DAVID STONE.

Witnesses:

JAMES T. GRAHAM,

O. SEDGWIOK. 

